Education Secretary Arne Duncan Proposes to Allow States to Use Up to $41 Million of Existing Title I and IDEA Funds to Effectively Administer, Monitor and Report Use of ARRA FundsDuncan Posts Proposed Notice to Adjust Caps on Administrative Funds for IDEA, section 611 and Title I, Part A

U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan announced today that the Education Department will publish a proposal in the Federal Register on Monday, Aug. 17, to allow states to reserve more administrative funds under Title I, Part A and IDEA to defray data collection costs in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) including those related to administering, monitoring and reporting on use of ARRA funds. Title I and IDEA are programs that provide additional educational assistance to academically at-risk students and children with disabilities, respectively. The notice is a proposal, which will be open for public comment for 30 days.

"With an historic $21 billion in stimulus funding for Title I, Part A and IDEA comes additional responsibilities for states to administer, monitor and report how dollars are being spent," said Duncan. "We want to do everything we can here at the Department to help states meet those needs, which is why we are proposing to make up to $41 million in existing Title I and IDEA funds available for this use nationwide."

ARRA imposed new requirements on states under Title I, Part A and IDEA, section 611. However, the Title I, Part A and IDEA, section 611 programs have limits on the amount of funds states may reserve for administration, which were put in place before the ARRA was passed. ARRA allows the secretary to make reasonable adjustments to those limits to help states meet the additional data burden related to administering, monitoring and reporting on the use of ARRA funds.

The notice specifies a maximum additional amount of administrative funds that each state may reserve under Title I, Part A and IDEA, section 611. Please see the tables below for these figures.

Note: * There are two figures for Title I, Part A. This is because the proposal would allow a state that requests and receives 1) a waiver related to Title I, Part A, ARRA funds, or 2) a waiver of maintenance of effort for LEAs, to reserve a larger amount of additional administrative funds than it would otherwise be permitted to reserve.

* For the purposes of this table, "waivers" refer to waivers described in Section C or E of the Title I, Part A Waiver Guidance that have been obtained by an State Education Agency from the Department.

Column 2 is equal to .3 percent of a state's Title I, Part A ARRA allocation with a minimum of $100,000 and a maximum of $600,000.

Column 3 is equal to .5 percent of a state's Title I, Part A ARRA allocation with a minimum of $200,000 and a maximum of $1,000,000.

IDEA Section 611

Column 1

Column 2 *

Alabama

$181,865

Alaska

$100,000

Arizona

$178,476

Arkansas

$112,178

California

$500,000

Colorado

$148,731

Connecticut

$132,971

Delaware

$100,000

District Of Columbia

$100,000

Florida

$500,000

Georgia

$313,758

Hawaii

$100,000

Idaho

$100,000

Illinois

$500,000

Indiana

$253,535

Iowa

$122,095

Kansas

$106,872

Kentucky

$157,570

Louisiana

$188,750

Maine

$100,000

Maryland

$200,242

Massachusetts

$280,552

Michigan

$400,608

Minnesota

$189,839

Mississippi

$117,836

Missouri

$227,175

Montana

$100,000

Nebraska

$100,000

Nevada

$100,000

New Hampshire

$100,000

New Jersey

$360,691

New Mexico

$100,000

New York

$500,000

North Carolina

$314,410

North Dakota

$100,000

Ohio

$437,736

Oklahoma

$147,925

Oregon

$128,979

Pennsylvania

$427,178

Puerto Rico

$109,098

Rhode Island

$100,000

South Carolina

$173,240

South Dakota

$100,000

Tennessee

$229,613

Texas

$500,000

Utah

$105,541

Vermont

$100,000

Virginia

$281,415

Washington

$221,357

West Virginia

$100,000

Wisconsin

$208,200

Wyoming

$100,000

* Column 2 is equal to .1 percent of a state's IDEA, section 611 ARRA allocation with a minimum of $100,000 and a maximum of $500,000.